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  Evanston IL (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 A new Northwestern University study discovered that spaceflight - both aboard a space shuttle or the International Space Station (ISS) - has a consistent effect on the gut microbiome. The Northwestern researchers developed a novel analytical tool to compare microbiome data from mice as far back as 2011. Called STARMAPS (Similarity Test for Accordant and Reproducible Microbiome Abundance Patterns), the tool indicates that spaceflight causes a specific, consistent change on the abundance, ratios and ... read more |
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U.S. Space Command to start Aug. 29, officials sayWashington (UPI) Aug 20, 2019 The U.S. Space Command will begin operations Aug. 29, Vice President Mike Pence and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford said Tuesday. ... more  
Russia sends 'Fedor' its first humanoid robot into spaceMoscow (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 Russia on Thursday launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International Space Station. ... more  
Atomic 'Trojan horse' could inspire new generation of X-ray lasers and particle collidersStanford CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 How do researchers explore nature on its most fundamental level? They build "supermicroscopes" that can resolve atomic and subatomic details. This won't work with visible light, but they can probe t ... more  
Seeking innovative ideas for exploring lunar cavesParis (ESA) Aug 22, 2019 How would you design a system to detect, map and explore caves on the Moon? Our latest hunt for ideas is seeking novel initiatives that address this question. While the surface of the Moon has ... more |
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New Iridium Certus transceiver for faster satellite data now in live testingMcLean VA (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 Iridium Communications Inc. has announced the first 10 approved beta partners developing new products based on the state-of-the-art Iridium Certus 9770 transceiver. Each partner has received operati ... more  
Newest GPS satellite scheduled to launch Thursday in FloridaOrlando FL (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 The U.S. Air Force is set to launch its newest GPS satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on Thursday morning. It's the second in a new, third generation of GPS satellites for ... more 
Pearl White cubesats launched by Rocket LabMahia, New Zealand (SPX) Aug 21, 2019 Rocket Lab's Electron rocket lifted off Monday AUg 19, at approximately 6 a.m. MDT. Onboard the rocket was Pearl White, an Air Force Space Command demonstration program consisting of two 6U cubesat ... more  
Lockheed nets $80M contract for Aegis system upgradesWashington (UPI) Aug 16, 2019 Lockheed Martin received an $80 million contract from the U.S. Navy for electronic equipment upgrades to the Aegis missile system, the Pentagon announced. ... more  
Russia and China blast US missile testMoscow (AFP) Aug 20, 2019 Russia and China warned Tuesday that a new US missile test had heightened military tensions and risked sparking an arms race, weeks after Washington ripped up a Cold War-era weapons pact with Moscow. ... more |
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Improving the magnetic bottle that controls fusion power on EarthPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Aug 19, 2019 Scientists who use magnetic fields to bottle up and control on Earth the fusion reactions that power the sun and stars must correct any errors in the shape of the fields that contain the reactions. ... more  |
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Astrobotic selects United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur Rocket for its first Moon missionPittsburgh PA (SPX) Aug 21, 2019 Astrobotic reports it has selected United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket in a competitive commercial procurement to launch its Peregrine lunar lander to the Moon in 2021. "We ar ... more  
A rare look at the surface of a rocky exoplanetBoston MA (SPX) Aug 20, 2019 A new study using data from the IRAC camera on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse at the conditions on the surface of a rocky planet around another star. The exoplanet very likel ... more 
UK seeking to enlist 'Five Eyes' for rival Galileo GPS system London, UK (Sputnik) Aug 20, 2019 In March 2018, the European Commission in Brussels confirmed the UK after Brexit was likely to be excluded from some aspects of the Galileo project, especially relating to PRS, despite having invest ... more  
A space cocktail of science, bubbles and soundsParis (ESA) Aug 20, 2019 The International Space Station was again the stage for novel European science and routine operations during the first half of August. Plenty of action in the form of bubbles and sounds added to the ... more 
A second planet in the Beta Pictoris SystemParis, France (SPX) Aug 20, 2019 A team of astronomers led by Anne-Marie Lagrange, a CNRS researcher at the Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (CNRS/Universite Grenoble Alpes), has discovered a second giant pla ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 21, 2019  NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan will conduct a spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday to install a docking adapter, NASA said on Tuesday.
"NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan, assigned as flight engineers for Expedition 60 aboard the International Space Station, will begin a planned six-and-a-half-hour s ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 16, 2019 
The Ariane-4 is a European disposable medium-class carrier rocket, which was used from 1988 to 2003. The rocket design was developed by the French National Centre for Space Research (CNES), produced by Arianspace.
The US Air Force's Outer Space Monitoring Service spotted the explosion, in orbit, of the third stage of a European Ariane 4 space rocket, the 18th US Air Force's outer space con ... more |
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 
Scientists have taken an important step towards revealing the mysterious source of methane on Mars, by refining estimates of the gas in the planet's atmosphere.
The methane puffing from a huge crater on Mars could be a sign of life or other non-biological activity under the planet's surface. Gale crater, which is 154 km in diameter and about 3.8 billion years old, is thought by some to con ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 21, 2019 
China's new communication satellite ChinaSat 18, sent into space on Monday, has experienced abnormalities, and space engineers are investigating the cause.
The ChinaSat 18 satellite was launched at 8:03 p.m. (Beijing Time) on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The satellite separated with the carrier rocket a ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 
Iridium Communications Inc. has announced the first 10 approved beta partners developing new products based on the state-of-the-art Iridium Certus 9770 transceiver. Each partner has received operational beta units, which have been undergoing extensive testing designed to fine-tune both the new transceiver and the first new solutions they will enable in preparation for service activation. Small a ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 20, 2019 
NASA recently doubled the rate at which data from the International Space Station returns to Earth, paving the way for similar future upgrades on Gateway, NASA's upcoming outpost in lunar orbit, and other exploration missions. This new data rate will enable the space station to send back more science data faster than ever before.
NASA's missions, both near and far, rely on quick and effect ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Aug 20, 2019 
A team of astronomers led by Anne-Marie Lagrange, a CNRS researcher at the Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (CNRS/Universite Grenoble Alpes), has discovered a second giant planet in orbit around Beta Pictoris, a star that is relatively young (23 million years old) and close (63.4 light-years) and surrounded by a disk of dust.
The Beta Pictoris system has fascinated a ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 20, 2019 
An icy ocean world in our solar system that could tell us more about the potential for life on other worlds is coming into focus with confirmation of the Europa Clipper mission's next phase.
The decision allows the mission to progress to completion of final design, followed by the construction and testing of the entire spacecraft and science payload.
"We are all excited about the dec ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Aug 15, 2019 
Dozens of countries will push at a global meeting for regulations on trade in 18 types of shark and ray, with conservationists warning Thursday of looming extinction for many species.
"Sharks and rays are pretty much unmanaged still in fisheries around the world and are disappearing before our eyes," Luke Warwick of the Wildlife Conservation Society told reporters in Geneva.
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 London, UK (Sputnik) Aug 20, 2019 
In March 2018, the European Commission in Brussels confirmed the UK after Brexit was likely to be excluded from some aspects of the Galileo project, especially relating to PRS, despite having invested more than 1 billion pounds in the EU Global Navigation Satellite System.
The UK is reaching out to its "Five Eyes" security allies to enlist their help in building an alternative to the EU's ... more |
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 Bangalore, India (AFP) Aug 20, 2019 
India's Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Tuesday, executing one of the trickiest manoeuvres on its historic mission to the Moon.
After four weeks in space, the craft completed its Lunar Orbit Insertion as planned, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement.
The insertion "was completed successfully today at 0902 hrs IST (0332 GMT) as planned, using t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 16, 2019 
Scientists have reprogrammed the Catalina Sky Survey's near-Earth object telescopes to look for both asteroids and cosmic mergers.
"Catalina Sky Survey has all of this infrastructure for their asteroid survey," Michael Lundquist, postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona, said in a news release. "So we have deployed additional software to take gravitational wave alert ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 
Capella Space, an information services company that provides on-demand Earth observation imagery, has announced its partnership with SpaceNet, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating open source, artificial intelligence (AI) applied research for geospatial applications.
Capella joins the collaborative SpaceNet partnership alongside In-Q-Tel's (IQT) CosmiQ Works, Maxar Technologi ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2019 
NASA has selected two proposals to demonstrate small satellite technologies to improve science observations in deep space, which could help NASA develop better models to predict space weather events that can affect astronauts and spacecraft.
"This is the first time that our heliophysics program has funded this kind of technology demonstration," said Peg Luce, deputy director of the Helioph ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2019  Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the discovery of the most massive star ever known to be destroyed by a supernova explosion, challenging known models of how massive stars die and providing insight into the death of the first stars in the universe.
First noticed in November 2016 by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia satellite, three year ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2019  How do researchers explore nature on its most fundamental level? They build "supermicroscopes" that can resolve atomic and subatomic details. This won't work with visible light, but they can probe the tiniest dimensions of matter with beams of electrons, either by using them directly in particle colliders or by converting their energy into bright X-rays in X-ray lasers. At the heart of such scie ... more |
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